March 12, 2015, Thursday

Proposals are being discussed that might jolt the Motion Picture Association of America, the 93-year-old policy front for Hollywood’s major studios, into line with the realities of a changing entertainment business.

Hana Beshara was a founder of NinjaVideo, one of the most popular online sites for illegal TV and movie downloads. To the online community, she was its queen. To the government, she was simply a thief.

Hollywood studios will soon begin receiving overdue payments for the distribution of their films in China, the Motion Picture Association of America chief executive Christopher Dodd said in a statement on Tuesday.